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Virgin Galactic was founded in 2004 by British entrepreneur Sir Richard Branson, who had previously founded the Virgin Group and the Virgin Atlantic airline, and who had a long personal history of balloon and surface record-breaking activities. As part of Branson's promotion of the firm, he has added a variation of the Virgin Galactic livery to ...
VSS Unity (Virgin Space Ship Unity, Registration: N202VG), previously referred to as VSS Voyager, was a SpaceShipTwo-class suborbital rocket-powered crewed spaceplane. It was the second SpaceShipTwo-spacecraft to be built and was used as part of the Virgin Galactic fleet.
Virgin Galactic CEO George T. Whitesides, in a news conference following the incident, said that "Space is hard and today was a tough day." [39] [40] Virgin founder Richard Branson said after the crash: "We do understand the risks involved and we are not going to push on blindly—to do so would be an insult to all those affected by this ...
On Sunday, Richard Branson became the first owner of a private space company to launch aboard one of his own spacecraft. Branson and Virgin Galactic complete successful space flight Skip to main ...
Watch live as Virgin Galactic launches its second commercial space flight. An 80-year-old former Olympian with Parkinson’s disease will be one of three passengers on board the space tourism ...
On Saturday, June 8, Virgin Galactic's "Galactic 07" mission successfully took off, briefly visited space, and landed with all passengers safe and sound. This was the company's seventh revenue ...
The 11 July 2021 flight was the first time more than three people flew suborbitally on a spaceflight and the first time more than one passenger flew on a suborbital spaceflight, and Branson was the first founder of a spaceflight company to fly to space on his own company's craft, using the USAF/NASA definition of space as above 50 miles.
Private Virgin Galatic launch included 18 year-old Anastatia Mayers, the youngest person ever to go to space